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Re:Roger Penrose – Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? [v... by hansbo on Friday April 17, 2020 @04:17AM (#22897163)
Don't they, though? The path of an orbit in vacuum should follow pi, unless coordinates are discrete (which they might be, I suppose)
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Re:Roger Penrose – Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? [v... by arethuza on Friday April 17, 2020 @04:21AM (#22897186)
You could argue that it is only the model we construct using maths that contains pi.
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Re:Roger Penrose – Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? [v... by thomasahle on Friday April 17, 2020 @04:55AM (#22897340)
The real question would be whether all simple, precise models of the concept contain something that can be identified as pi.
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Re:Roger Penrose – Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? [v... by tchaffee on Friday April 17, 2020 @05:32AM (#22897517)
Pi can be a unit of one in an alternate numbering system.
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